Nightclubs: The Sabbatical Satirist

As a statistician, he specializes in the
laws of probability. As a cabaret performer, he defies them. For when
Satirist Tom Lehrer "retired" from show business in 1960 to
return to math and Harvard, he deliberately buried his alter egoand,
it seemed, any chance of a comeback. Many fans even believed widespread
reports that he had killed himself. Instead it was Lehrer who was
slaying the customers last week at San Francisco's hungry i, where he
proved to be the nightclub's biggest draw since the Limelighters played
there in 1959.